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The City and the Pillar Gore Vidal
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Like any self-respecting American who considers himself even the slightest but literarily inclined, I was already a fan of Vidal's work. Vintage, 1948, re-released 1965, 1995. He chose to serve Jimmy Trimble, a teenager with whom he fell in love in boarding school and who provided inspiration for The City and the Pillar, and in doing so betrayed the bigotry of American society. He wrote his first novel at 19 while serving in the Army during World War II. Our Gay section on Amazon is I'd say 98% not Kindled yet, in time we are going to see publishers running to get their books into the ebook formats. It also imparts which of the celebrity's books, characters or songs is the most beloved among one's circle. He thought Britain's intelligence service was called 'M Sixteen'). Turns out, everyone has read Crazy Salad and The City and the Pillar, and adores “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.”. Meanwhile his third novel, published in 1948, featured homosexuality (The City and The Pillar), and in 1968 he published Myra Breckenridge, a satirical comedy about a transsexual. Was a premature gay martyr (on this, you don't know half the story: see Neil McKenna's The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde on his underground activities), and therefore a “natural” topic for the author of The City and the Pillar.